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Countdown

I've been playing with some new variations that will drive me to listen to a broader range of music.

My most recent one is Countdown, which is comprised of the following lists...

Countdown 5


My Rating = *****
Last Played is not in the last 1 month
Rank by Random 50 Songs

Countdown 4


My Rating = ****
Last Played is not in the last 1 month
Rank by Random 40 Songs

Countdown 3


My Rating = ***
Last Played is not in the last 1 month
Rank by Random 30 Songs

Countdown 2


My Rating = **
Last Played is not in the last 1 month
Rank by Random 20 Songs

Countdown 0


My Rating = 
Last Played is not in the last 1 month
Rank by Random 10 Songs

This is based on the fact I use ratings of 1 to indicate things to purge.

I set the one month to make sure I start pulling up new stuff, but still want it weighted toward things I like. As I listen to things on here though, I find a re-rate some twos to threes, and some fours down to threes as well.

by Denrael on Oct 18 | 3:06 pm

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Top 10 By Genre

I went through and updated all my ID3 Tags on all my songs..updated genres and the album names...and no i didnt do it manually..u crazy that would take a year..lol I used Musicbrainz tagger excellent program, and its completely free...they ask for a donation but i just ignore that..

Anyway..

Top 10 genre uses the playcount


Match all
Genre is  __________
Limit to 10 songs selected by most often played
Live updating

by Graham on Oct 18 | 8:00 am

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"Best of"

this is pretty simple...but if u have 2+ cds of the same artist...u must like them...so what i do is make a playlist for each band and do a "best of" just select like 5 or 6 songs or how many ever u like from each cd...ur favorites and put them in the best of playlist..


*Match All
*Artist is  _________ (instert band name)
*Comment is "best of"

its very simple yet very effective.

by Graham on Aug 28 | 1:49 pm

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'Nested' Playlists

With a bit of coding, you can create a generic playlist, and several subordinate lists at once.

Say the main list is music you like to go to sleep by. Add 'pm' to the Comments section, then create a SPL that looks for that commnet.

Now- lets say you wanna create playlists for classical, new age, soft rock, etc., all music to play at night.

Simply add a letter to the 'pm' code for each group-
- cpm for classical
- npm for new age, etc.

Create a new SPL for each category.

Now- your 'master' SPL will play ALL of these songs, but you can also break them down to fit different moods!

by Madkins007 on Aug 28 | 1:44 pm

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My Playlist System

For what it's worth, here's how I organize my playlists:

1) Current playlists include the following. (Many of these gleaned from SmartPlaylists.com!) The ":" in the first few SPLs brings these playlists to the top of the display, so I can find them quickly - -

: iPod Shuffle
: Kid's Playlist (comment contains 'Kid's Name')
: New Music Store
: (New Album(s)) - makes new purchases / loads easy to find.
: Current Favorite Group

Other playlists:

Acoustic (comment contains 'Acoustic')
Acoustic-Slow (BPM < 3; I use a BPM 1-5 scale, 1 = very slow, 5 = very fast)
Acoustic-Faves (4 or 5 stars)
Acoustic-Slow (BPM=1,2)
Acoustic-Medium (BPM=3)
All '70's (comment contains '70's)
All '80's (comment contains '80's)
Alternative (I like to have Genre playlists -- makes music easier to find)
Beatles '62-'66
Beatles '67-'70
Beatles-Acoustic
Bedspins (my former band. Any songs on our play set get flagged with comment = 'Bedspins')
Classical
Costello-Acoustic
Costello-Albums
Costello-B-sides (all the 'bonus disc' stuff from the Rhino re-releases)
Costello-Live
Country
Dance
Folk
Forgotten Faves
Hip-Hop/Rap
Jazz-All
Jazz-Fast
Jazz-Instrumental (comment does not contain 'vocal')
Jazz-Medium
Jazz-Slow
Jazz-Vocal
Live
Love - Pop
Love - Rock
Mellow Mix (BPM is <= 2)
R&B
Ray Charles - Slow (BPM = 2)
Ray Charles - Med / Fast (BPM >= 3)
Recent Faves
Recently Added
Rock-Fast
Rock-Medium
Soul-Fast
Soul-Mellow
Swing
Top 25
Women in Rock (comment contains '@+')
@ Needs BPM (no BPM)
@ Rate / Delete (no rating or just 1-star)

2) Comments field can be very useful in further defining your music. I use '70's', '80's', 'Live', 'Vocal', 'Acoustic', and '@+' (female lead singer and / or band)

3) BPM is very helpful to segment your music into slow, medium, fast. I use a 1-5 scale, 1=very slow, 3=medium, 5=very fast / intense

4) Finally, I tried "Radio Station" playlists (SPLs that reference other SPLs) but was frustrated by the lack of auto-refreshing on the iPod. To get around this, most of my playlists above are constructed as one-hour long with "Not Played in the Last ___ Days / Weeks Months". So, each of these SPLs auto-refresh on the iPod.

I dump these one-hour long SPLs together in On-The-Go to suit my mood. (For example, I might combine "All '80's" with "Recently Added" with "Forgotten Faves"). Advantage is, if I change my mind during the day when I can't synch to iTunes, I simply clear the On-The-Go and start again.

by Scott on Aug 05 | 8:00 am

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